Bling.

In these times of budget cuts, enforced furloughs, and layoffs on the one hand, and higher student fees on the other, it’s important for faculty and staff in higher education to evince an appropriate awareness of this atmosphere of austerity…. oh, you must be joking.

Spotted at a local community college, so don’t start in about the privileges of the UC….

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Yeah, but if he teaches, say, {a href=”http://www.nic.bc.ca/program/plumbing_apprenticeship_training”}this{/a}, he probably earned it by standing knee deep in sewage at 2am on New Year’s Day.
(Now to see if I’ve learned something today, or just messed up my favourite blog.)

To be tiresome, you can occasionally get ’70s era Rolls’s for pretty cheap, especially if they’ve been in an accident. Of course, it’s impossible to insure them — you can total them hitting a pothole, easy — and insanely expensive to repair if something goes wrong, but if you’re on a budget it’s eminently possible to drive an honest-to-goodness Rolls for, oh, three months or so before something goes wrong.

I’ve seen the odd 70s-vintage RR around here and there, and the main thing that strikes you about them these days is how small they look, given their former status as the very pinnacle of luxury motoring.

A true conundrum. A 30-year old Rolls won’t cost you any more to own and drive than a modern car, if you’re careful- but nobody ever bought a Rolls to advertise their economy. And you get no ‘street cred’ from real classic car lovers.

Which means the owner basically just really loves that car. An odd choice perhaps, but you could do worse if you’re going to just really love something.

Sumptuary laws for the aspiring poor? Not sure how well that would work….

I could ask a friend when his son-in-law drives the Lamborgini, the only yellow one in California, to Menlo College. It would make a great addition to your photo collection. He happens to be a very large donor to the College. Oh Hell, to much trouble. Too bad he can’t take the Gulfstream to Menlo as that would make an even better photo.